Acts 2:23
God had set the plan and known it beforehand: he was handed over, and you, through the hands of lawless men, fastened him to a cross and killed him.
Treated in 9 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The Christian Conception of God—The Infinite Perfection and Unity of God cites Acts 2:23
…by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled." In Acts 2:23 Peter declared on the day of Pentecost (although the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus was…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 1, Chapter 18 — The Instrumentality of the Wicked Employed by God, While He Continues Free from Every Taint cites Acts 2:23
…that Christ was delivered to death by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God (Acts 2:23); in other words, that God, to whom all things are known from the beginning, had…
- Real Questions – Book 2 ·
If God Knows Everything, Do I Really Have Free Will? cites Acts 2:23
…set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death” (Acts 2:23). God’s plan, and real human guilt, in one sentence. But Christians have gone further and…
- The Key Teachings of Jonathan Edwards ·
The Sovereignty of God cites Acts 2:23
…the same breath that this happened by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God (Acts 2:23). The church at prayer says the same thing more explicitly still. For of a truth against…
- The Big Story ·
Meant for Good cites Acts 2:23
…set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death” (Acts 2:23). Human evil, God’s good purpose, in the same event. And like Joseph, Jesus forgave those…
- Tell Me the Story – Book 1: In the Beginning ·
“I Am Joseph!” cites Acts 2:23–24
…death on a cross. But that was part of God’s plan too, and God raised Him from the dead (Acts 2:23–24). God turned the worst thing that ever happened into the best thing that ever happened…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 22 — This Doctrine Confirmed by Proofs from Scripture cites Acts 2:23
…says that Christ was “delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,” (Acts 2:23), he does not represent God as contemplating merely, but as actually accomplishing our…
- Old Paths ·
The Cross of Christ cites Acts ii. 23
…in due time. He was crucified “by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.” (Acts ii. 23.) People seem to me to forget that all Christ’s sufferings on the cross were necessary…
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit ·
The Holy Spirit Convicting the World of Sin, Righteousness, and Judgment cites Acts 2:22-36
…rejected was their Lord and Christ, confirmed so to be by His resurrection from the dead (Acts 2:22-36). “And when they heard this (namely, that He whom they had rejected was Lord and Christ)…